Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations

A publication by Curdin Derungs (UZH, URPP Language and Space)Martina Köhl (UZH, Department of Geography)Robert Weibel (UZH, URPP Language and Space / Department of Geography) and Balthasar Bickel (UZH, URPP Language and Space / Department of Comparative Linguistics) investigates linguistic diversity influenced by environmental factors over time. The article can be found here.

Derungs C, Köhl M, Weibel R, Bickel B. 2018 Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations. Proc. R. Soc. B 285, 20172851. (Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 29 August 2018, Volume 285, Issue 1885).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2851